Bible Cross References
We gat our bread with the peril of our lives because of the sword of the wilderness.
Judges 6:11
And an angel of the Lord came, and sat down under the fir tree, which was in Ephratha in the land of Joash father of Esdri. And Gideon his son was threshing wheat in a wine press in order to escape from the face of Midian.
2 Samuel 23:17
And he said, O Lord, [God] forbid that I should do this, that I should drink of the blood of the men who went at [the risk of] their lives; and he would not drink it. These things did these three mighty men.
Jeremiah 40:9-12
9
And Gedaliah swore to them and to their men, saying, Be not afraid before the children of the Chaldeans; dwell in the land, and serve the king of Babylon, and it shall be well with you.
10
And behold, I dwell in your presence at Mizpah, to stand before the Chaldeans who shall come against you. And gather grapes, and fruits, and oil, and put [them] into your vessels, and dwell in the cities which you have obtained possession of.
11
And all the Jews that were in Moab, and among the children of Ammon, and those [that were] in Edom, and those [that were] in all [the rest of] the country, heard that the king of Babylon [had] granted a remnant to Judah, and that he had appointed over them Gedaliah the son of Ahikam.
12
And they came to Gedaliah into the land of Judah, to Mizpah, and gathered grapes, and very much summer fruit, and oil.
Jeremiah 41:1-10
1
Now it came to pass in the seventh month that Ishmael the son of Nethaniah the son of Elishama of the royal family came, and ten men with him, to Gedaliah to Mizpah. And they ate bread there together.
2
And Ishmael rose up, and the ten men that were with him, and killed Gedaliah, whom the king of Babylon had appointed [governor] over the land,
3
and all the Jews that were with him in Mizpah, and all the Chaldeans that were found there.
4
And it came to pass on the second day after he had killed Gedaliah, and no man knew,
5
that there came men from Shechem, and from Shiloh, and from Samaria, eighty men, having their beards shaven, and their clothes torn, and beating their breasts, and [they had] manna and frankincense in their hands, to bring into the house of the Lord.
6
And Ishmael went out to meet them; [and] they went on and wept. And he said to them, Come in to Gedaliah.
7
And it came to pass, when they had entered into the midst of the city, [that] he killed them [and cast them] into a pit.
8
But ten men were found there, and they said to Ishmael, Do not kill us, for we have treasures in the field, wheat and barley, honey and oil. So he passed by, and did not kill them in the midst of their brothers.
9
Now the pit into which Ishmael cast all whom he killed is the great pit, which King Asa had made for fear of Baasha king of Israel. Ismael filled this with the slain.
10
And Ishmael brought back all the people that were left in Mizpah, and the king's daughter, whom the captain of the guard had committed in charge to Gedaliah the son of Ahikam. And he went away beyond the children of Ammon.
Jeremiah 41:18-10
Jeremiah 42:14
for we will go into the land of Egypt, and we shall see no war, and shall not hear the sound of a trumpet, and we shall not hunger for bread; and there we will dwell-
Jeremiah 42:16
If you set your face toward Egypt, and go in there to dwell; then it shall be [that] the sword in which you fear shall find you in the land of Egypt, and the famine in which you have regard, shall overtake you in Egypt; and there you shall die.
Ezekiel 4:16
And He said to me, Son of man, behold, I break the support of bread in Jerusalem: and they shall eat bread by weight and in poverty, and shall drink water by measure, and in a state of ruin;
Ezekiel 4:17
that they may want bread and water; and a man and his brother shall be brought to ruin, and they shall pine away in their iniquities.
Ezekiel 12:18
Son of man, eat your bread with sorrow, and drink [your] water with torment and affliction.
Ezekiel 12:19
And you shall say to the people of the land, Thus says the Lord to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, on the land of Israel: They shall eat their bread in scarcity, and shall drink their water in desolation, that the land may be desolate with all that it contains, for all that dwell in it are ungodly.